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From street corners, barbershops and bodegas to blogs, Twitter and Facebook, the Spring Valley community is engaged in a passionate conversation as it struggles to understand how two leaders from the diverse working-class village became entwined in a corruption scandal stretching from Albany to New York City.

They wonder, what will become of the village that just three years ago elected the first Haitian-American mayor in the country?

How will the arrest of Mayor Noramie Jasmin and her deputy, Joseph Desmaret, both of Haitian descent, reflect on the larger Haitian community that has ...